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People make their way amid the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli bombardment, in the Jabalia camp for displaced Palestinians on August 31, 2024. (Photo: Hadi Daoud/APA Images)

Palestine is the perfect illustration of the West’s staggering hypocrisy. The Gaza genocide defines us because it is us. 

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left), U.S. president Bill Clinton (center), and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat (right), during the signing of the Oslo Accords, September 13, 1993.

The ICJ’s ruling that international law protects the rights of Palestinians, and they need not negotiate with their oppressors for those rights, dealt a definitive blow to decades of Western efforts to situate Israel outside the reach of the law.